Improvement in thimbles and thread-cutters



JAMES A. PETTET.

Improvement in Thimbles and Thread Cutters.

N0. .119,531. Patented Oct. 3, 18W.

n or thread-cutter.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JAMES A. PETTET, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. v

IMPROVEMENT IN THIMBLES ANDTHREAD-CUTTERS.

Speeiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,531, dated Qctober 3, 1871.

,Companying drawing, of which- Figure l is a front elevation; Fig.2, a side view, and Fig. 3 a bottom view of one of my improved thimbles.

In carrying out my invention I combine with a thimble and arrange on one side of it a seamsmoother and a notched knife or thread-cutter.

In the drawing, A denotes the thimble; B, the seam-smoother, and C the angular notched knife The seam-smoother I construct or provide with a horn or smoothing projection,

a, to extend from it at an acute angle, as shown, and in and between the smoother and such horn' I place or arrange the angular knife, the whole being in manner as represented in the drawing.

The said knife is to enable a seamstress or person, while having the thimble on her or his iinger, to employ the knife in severing the thread used in sewing, and the seam-smoother or horn in rubbing down and smoothing a seam after it may have been formed.

I claim as my invention- A thimble, A, having a seam-smoothing projection, B, horn a, and cutting-blade c, all substantially as described.

JAS. A. PETTET.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow. 

